ALSO: AP finds hundreds of legal voters, R and D, who've already lost right to vote under similar laws in other states...

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Unless civil rights groups suing, incredibly enough, for the right of legal voters to cast their legal vote
in Pennsylvania this year are successful in blocking the new GOP law,
hundreds of thousands of voters -- of all parties, but
disproportionately Democratic-leaning -- could be disenfranchised in the Keystone State alone this November, under the Republicans' new polling place Photo ID restriction.

The estimated 750,000 voters who do not have state-issued IDs
in Pennsylvania surpasses President Obama's margin of victory in 2008.
Many of the voters without ID are in poor and minority communities --
typically blocs that vote Democratic. Democrats' worst fears appeared to
be confirmed when the Republican leader of the state House, who helped
shepherd the legislation onto the books, recently boasted that it will "allow" Mitt Romney to win the Keystone State.

Democrats now have to make sure voters are aware of the law, know
whether they comply, know how to meet the requirements if they don't
already -- and do it all before Election Day. This could be a steep
climb. Only one of five voters approached by TPM at Obama's Pittsburgh rally Friday knew the law existed.

"I heard about it in Florida but not here," said Martin Hoberman, a voter from the Pittsburgh area.

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At the same time, AP reports today
that based on its study of recent elections in Indiana, Georgia and
Tennessee -- states where GOP-backed polling place Photo ID
restrictions have already been in effect for some time -- "legitimate
votes rejected by the laws are far more numerous than are the cases of
fraud that advocates of the rules say they are trying to prevent."

That, of course, is the point.

As the AP story points out in its opening grafs, perfectly legal votes of Republican
voters will also be tossed out (in the story they mention a 90-year old
WWII veteran and his wife who had no idea their votes for Romney in
this year's Indiana primary were never counted) along with the
disenfranchisement of untold numbers who don't even bother to show up to
vote at all because they don't own one of the very narrowly defined
state-issued Photo IDs approved for use under these new voter
suppression laws.

And, yes, when Republicans lose their right to vote, it pisses us off
just as much as when Democrats lose their right to vote, even when it
happens under voter suppression laws passed by Republicans.

We can think of little that is more blatantly and appallingly
anti-American than what the GOP is now doing in hopes of purposely and
systematically undermining the very core of democracy in this nation.